That is really what this whole debate is about. Which side are we on?

the scientific community is fairly clear. You know, we get distracted by the terrible war, Putin's war in Ukraine. We get distracted by a lot of things, but climate change is real, and what scientists tell us, if we do not act extremely…

This is an important step forward, and I congratulate the President for doing that.

Do we have the courage to take on the hundreds of millions of dollars in lobbyists... or do we stand with the patients?

Medicare-for-all would save the American people and our entire health care system $650 billion each and every year.

Today, in America, we have more income and wealth inequality than we have had in 100 years.

Over the last 45 years in this country there has been a massive--massive--redistribution of wealth.

Over half of the people in this country are living paycheck to paycheck.

Anyone who thinks we do not have an oligarchy right here in America is sorely mistaken.

I will be doing everything I can to pass a strong and robust budget reconciliation bill that works for working families, not the 1 percent.

In the richest country on Earth senior citizens should not have teeth rotting in their mouths.

We need to focus on the needs of working families.

The very, very wealthiest people are becoming phenomenally wealthier.

We have got to go further than that.

The President believes, very strongly, that billionaires and those worth more than $100 million, should pay what firefighters, teachers, and nurses pay as their effective tax rate.

it was an epidemic before the pandemic and it has only been exacerbated since.

The question before us is whether we will stand with the working families of this country and protect their interests or whether we stand with the big money interests.

During the American Rescue Plan we did something, I think, extraordinarily important, and that is extended and expanded the child tax credit for working class parents.